The Decline of Chuck E. Cheese's...What Happened?
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2020
- Chuck E. Cheese's has filed for bankruptcy, a headline I never wanted to see. This video investigates the deeper reasoning behind it while taking a look at their eventful history.
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Growing up our Chuck E Cheese was next door to a liquor store and gun shop. God bless Missouri
Haha! I remember that Vine once.
_Let's go to the gun shop, then they we're going to the liquor store. If we put both of them, and put it into the Chuck E. Cheese's._
Godspeed for Chuck E. Cheese. **salute**
Do you mean a liquor store, and a gun shop. Or a gun shop that sold liquor.
When i vacationed In Alabama, it was an Adult Caberat and a Tobacco shop next to the Chuckie Cheese. EZ daycare I guess.
Finally, and entertainment plaza for all ages.
Are you taking about the one in Ellisville, because that’s the one I went to all the time?
They should’ve paid their debt with Chuck E Cheese tokens
i see you everywhere lmao
Omfg this is my most liked comment/reply wtf
Lol
Very nice.
They tried but they only had enough for glow in the dark vampire fangs.
absolutely genius
They got rid of tokens, tickets, animatronics, and their old unique games. They took away what made them stand out.
Sometimes keeping those would fall them back into the times and people wouldn’t be around for it
Franchise rules:
1. If a store is losing money, either find out why and fix it, or close the store.
2. Always be looking for ways to cut costs without degrading customer experience.
3. Keep up with the changing times.
4. Expect large scale problems such as recessions, and be prepared to weather them.
5. Listen to your customers, but also listen to your employees who work directly with them.
6. It's okay to grow aggressively, but be wary of growing recklessly. Wild success can cloud your judgement.
7. don't get bought out by an equity firm for 1b
@@Seigmoraig1 😂
“Large scale problems”
Qi-
3 is, unfortunately, too vague to be of use. How many companies chased fads and ignored their core business?
Only those who were born in the early 2000s would remember *Chucky Cheeses; proud sponsor of PBS Kids*
broooo I remember this ☠️☠️
🤣
The good old days
Yaaasss
I forgot about that
Chuck E Cheese: *closes down*
FNaF Fans: "Hey, I saw this one!"
Chuck E Cheese fans: What are you talking about? It's brand new
@@ratchet55_m8 hm
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Fun fact at night the guard that actually works there has to keep a spare helmet because the animatronic has face recognition and if it sees someone it will see them as a threat and attack them
I’ve been training for this one
Three things made us stop going there (1) my kids hated the electronic pass cards. The found the coin tokens far more fun. (2) it was operating on such a cheap budget that they could barely fix anything, and it started to be run down, (3) that same cheap budget made them get the cheapest employees and lowest class customers, and it basically became a bad "neighborhood" in the stores.
your kids dont give a crap about any of those 3 reasons, dont use them as a pitcher for your problems
And kids would take the Chuck E. Cheese tokens as a souvenir.
#3 is what did it for me and my mom as a kid
I mean you don't have to be shy, it went from where all races went there to where ghetto African Americans went to and then you get videos of these adults fighting because they don't know how to control themselves out in public, and they let their kids run wild and break stuff and become little hood gatherings. That's basically the truth
When I was younger, I remember Chuck E Cheese being bigger and also remember a ball pit. I had alot of great memories there. As an adult, all I see a couple of crappy games. On top of that, the workers seem like they hate their lives. It just gives you a bad vibe as a parent.
This place was my childhood, but the animatronics are still creepy as HECK.
shit used to scare me
I used to hide under the stage when they started playing.
thats what happens when you just "run with it" and accept the rat costumes lol
Five nights at chuckys
I agree it scared me
FNAF: You’re weak
Chuck E. Cheese: I’m you
Fnaf is chuck e cheese not the other way around
@@barnacles1352 did u see the news of 5 children gone missing in chuck e cheese? it feels like fnaf is real.
*you're
@@smileyfacethegreat its not it's fake
Lmao let me fix my garbage Grammar
i remember during the pandemic, Chuck e Cheese survived by selling pizza through door dash, postmates and uber eats. they listed as Pasquale's pizza(because there was no flashing lights, giant arcade games and other stimuli to distract people from the fact that they have lousy pizza) a few outraged delivery people blew the whistle when they found out Pasquale's pizza was just chuck e cheese pizza, it was kind of a scandal.
its called a ghost kitchen
It was called "Pasqually's Pizza and Wings" and it didn't take long at all for people to realize that it was Chuck E. Cheese in disguise... atleast their pizza is actually pretty good now, as they changed their recipe back in 2014. Their old pizza was like cardboard!
There is also another reason why Chuck E. Cheese is in its decline, and that's because ALL of the locations decided to REMOVE and SCRAP the animatronics and replace it with a dance floor.
Look at the comment below yours. It says how expensive it was to run the animatronics.
@@412StepUp it reminds me of a game
@@sedrah11it reminds me of Battle for Bikini Bottom where spongebob has to save bikini bottom from plankton
Man, I miss those "Where a kid can be a kid!" commercials...
cresentia togami do be liking Chuck E. Cheese 😭😂
Is it bad that I never seen chuck e cheese commercials, also that I never went to chuck e cheese
It's ok Togami-kun even I miss my childhood pizza place
Note: I actually went to Chuck.E Cheese and the character that creep me out was Chuck.E Cheese when I was a kid
Yeah...
Byakuya Togami Same here
In high school, my girlfriend worked at CEC. One day they had a birthday party, but no one to be Chuck. So I donned the costume and worked the party. I hated almost every minute of it. It smelled horrible in that helmet and rowdy kids are kind of annoying. But it did feel nice when little 3-4 years old would shyly walk up and hug my leg and then run back to their mommy all happy.
glooks
Thanks for letting me hug your leg. You a real one. 🙏🏼
@@WileyGuy Kinda weird to tell that to someone on the internet.
@@margaritakouzi5630 that’s the point 😌
Y...you mean chuck e isnt real? 😓😓
I had my first Chucky cheese party at age 26 this summer 😂. I had told my wife a few months back when we drove past a chucky cheese that I never had a party there growing up considering how popular it was at the time… sure enough this summer she told me we were going to a kids bday party there but when we went inside all my family and her family was there. It was awesome I was the only grown ass man playing with all the kids I even gave all the kids all my tickets at the end 😂
Top tier wholesome comment. Genuinely loved reading it. What a wonderful wife you have!
The Chuck E. Cheese story is one that I share in my high school Business Management class. It was a personal situation that my father experienced in the '80's He had bought shares of Chucky Cheese and when they went backrupt he lost all his money. Fast forward to today (2022)...we are getting ready to celebrate my granddaughter's 5th birthday at one of the few Chucky Cheese locations left in my area. The last time we went (4 years ago), the older granddaughter was 8 and she was disapointed because of the games and she could only get cheap toys with her tickets. This upcoming visit will probably be our last, which makes me sad as I have great memories of taking MY children to CEC. The end of an era.
How was it
Chuck E. Cheese's: files for bankruptcy
Fnaf fans: *oh yeah, it's all coming together*
yeSS xD
Lmao
if theres a security guard with a name “William” “Mike” or any last name of “Afton” we all know (or anything else) i’m already done knowing nightshifts there have to wear An Animatronic helmet due to FACIAL CONTACT (literally 😭) doesnt THAT SOUND FAMILIAR *puts on freddy mask* 😌
yeah, and kids even went missing in that place
Lol
Chuck E Cheeses didn’t get worse.
Their fans just grew up.
Yoooooo ;'(
Deep.
@Thystaff Thywill lol
No it just people got smarter not to bring there kids to a scam
Thystaff Thywill do know the arcade games at arcades it’s like 5 tokens/dollars to play a crane game the only fun ones are the shooter ones with a friend and those ones are expensive
The ticket Blaster is the best. I remember as a kid the boys at a birthday party eating alot of pizza,farting in the ticket Blaster and convincing the girls to go in to try to win tickets. There were no more chucky cheese parties after that but you know it was a good one if you still remember it.
Fun fact: after PTT and SBP merged into one company, they originally wanted to keep the showbiz characters around. They approached the creator of the showbiz animatronics, Aaron Fechter, and asked to buy off his characters. He actually got pretty mad about the idea of merging his characters with the pizza time theater characters, and they were actually forced to use only the PTT characters as they no longer had Aarons blessings to use the rockafire explosion.
It’s simple;
They tried to out pizza the hut.
Well cause they was using Pizza Hut pizzas at first
The out pizza’d the hut in the end
They didn't try. They did. But it cost everything
Well, Dominos already succeeded in doing that.
My mom knew one of the the original owners and their kids of Pizza Hut
Their debt spiked in 2014, Five Nights at Freddy’s came out in 2014.
HHHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
I wonder what happened there
11:23 same for me, last time I went was 20 years ago was there for my birthday party (was 8 or 9) I remember there was a remote controlled airplane that you could re-deem for 8,000 tickets. Actual cost was $80-100USD, but the tickets were easily $3-4,000 in equivalent. Sad to see Chuck E. Cheese be in such dire straits, but at the same time, with how entertainment has evolved int he past 20 years- it was inevitable.
Thanks for taking me down a trip through memory lane.
Last I went (four months before the pandemic) I was extremely unimpressed. The animatronics were dead, busted, not operating. To entertain these *children* the staff (too few and overworked) put on a *vhs tape* on a television likely yanked from a 1990s classroom. The place was an absolute trash heap, nobody seen attempting to tidy it, and probably 2/3 of the games were down. If the company exits our daily life and enters forgotten history, it’s because they didn’t invest money into bigger and better attractions and instead cruise controlled off a cliff. Constantly cutting costs never prospered anybody.
And yes, kids want some gotdang tokens, not a gotdang subway pass. Give them the filthy pirate treasure they crave, gotdangit.
The chances of getting strangled by Chuck E. Cheese are low
But never 0
YES BUT IT SHOULD BE HIGHER
(•_•;) Oi what!
*chances of getting strangled by Chuck E. Cheese have decreased to 0 and then went up to 10000000000000000000000%*
Chuck e cheese helps kids a lot- and example is blowing there nose ;-;
But I really think it’s a danger because- his HUGE hand goes right in front of the kids face
At any time he could be suffocating the child without the parents noticing thinking he is helping
So it’s really a 50 50 chance :/
@@sm_miyah You think the costume is something to worry about?
I mean, people on both ends have it bad when it comes to the walkaround costume, but I think we can agree that the real problem is the poor placement of CEC franchise stores in low-income communities.
EVERYONE knows Chuck E Cheese died after they got rid of the tokens.. They were way better than some card
Agreed
Honestly I'm 14 and I said I wouldn't go back unless they used tokens.
ikr
They out pizza'd the hut and got fucked for it.
Yup I'm 12 and yah I use to like it but over the time I didn't like it
This was my first job at 16 years old in 1983. I could go on all day with stories about how awful they treated the employees but the bottom line is that I never set foot in Chuck E. Cheese again. This also motivated me to never work in another entry level service job. So thanks for the life lesson and good bye Chuck.
Let me weigh in as a parent of four 90's kids.
They turned into little casinos. All the kids could do was to drop coins at one point.
We stopped going when most of the activities were non physical and non skill based. I just felt like they were emptying my pockets and there was no value.
Almost any time a company starts going downhill, you'll hear the phrase, "and then they were acquired by a private equity company."
"they were acquired by a private equity firm, and five years later, for probably unrelated reasons, they declared bankruptcy".
The business equivalent to ‘everything changed when the fire nation attacked.
If i would be right its like when ea buys a game studio and it beats the shit out of them with business quotas until th company fails
Vulture capital.
It's not always bad unless the acquisition is through a leveraged buyout.
It’s kinda weird that the worst year of Chuck E. Cheese is 2014 the same year fnaf was released
Estra 14 I mean, there has been strange things happening in a couple restaurants, like strange animatronic movement, night guards dying, and having to wear a animatronic mask when cleaning at night just so they don’t think you’re a burglar
@@kaimartinez9846 lol oof
@Ilyass Abbad yea like me, i had nightmares of freddy back then and stayed up all night staring at my door thinking freddy was gonna come in, grab me, and eat me
Dani ??!?!?! Same bro shit was scary
Oh god....
I will always remember the sound of the ticket eater machine
IKRRR it actually scared me as a kid I thought there was a monster in there 😭
@@ashr.k5041 same ! But I loved it so much
Nothing was better than going to cash in your tickets in at a machine with Mr.munch on it
Another thing I loved at chuck e cheeses was the iconic ice cream vending machine that had this like… weird sucky vacuum thingy that got your ice cream from these small square freezers
I loved every last bit of it
Even though (most likely) someone had pooped in the playplace
I miss those crazy tubes
@@TronWizard yea man. I grew up with the early 2000s Chuck e Cheese. It was my childhood. Now I’m a legal adult 😭 I miss it so much
@@ashr.k5041 there’s one with all the characters on stage an hour from me in IL. I need to make the venture before they update it.
You should do one on The Discovery Zone. When I was a kid I never understood why kids wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese's when The Discovery Zone was so much more fun!
5 kids go missing at Chuck E. Cheese
FNAF: Let us introduce ourselves..
It's a hoax
@Sans 2345 it’s a joke
One TURBOWPOWER I only jest.
Me: CHARLES ENTERTAINMENT CJEESE
5 kids didint go missing
toys r us: closed
charles entertainment cheese: bankrupt
purple guy: *nervously chuckles*
Toys R Us has returned by demand, except on a mall-based smaller scale.
a guy
@From 18 to 508 Barney the Cat...
Nobody will get this, but, I THINK IM A BUNNY! YOURE A MONSTER YOUR A MONSTER MONSTER MONSTER!
@From 18 to 508 the killer in FNaF.
One of my all time favorite memes is from the Showtime Pizza place, it was an ad in a newspaper or magazine, and that creepy Charles Entertainment Cheese knock off is sitting behind a family, and the ad says "Save your family from expensive meal prices", or something like that, then at the bottom it just takes part of that quote
"Save your family"
💀
Chuck E Cheese: A powerful rat, named Charles Entertainment Cheese
Chuck E Cheese now: *A powerless rat, named Charles Entertainment Cheese*
ShowBiz Pizza Place: Well well well...how the turntables
A Chuck E Cheese birthday party is a perfect way to describe the UK's House of Commons when you think about it...
chuck e. cheese: I-
fnaf fans: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
Me in the corner trying to see the kids in the animatronics: (ง'̀-'́)ง
Vaneepoo :3 yeah I would climb in the playground and look in the mouth when they opened it but I would make sure they didn’t see me.
Yesh
I got the chucky heads and flashlights.
LETS FIX THESE ANIMATRONICS WITH A CONTROLLED SHOCK
yeah, and kids even went missing in that place
did anyone else cry, get freaked out, or feel uncomfortable when that one guy in the chuck e. cheese costume walked around and tried to hang out with the kids.... i did not ef with that i tell you
I did lol
I would hide in the slides one time he came up I screamed
lmao i got chased once
Me: STEP AWAY FROM THE CHILD I REPEAT STEP AWAY FROM THE DAMN CHILD!!!!!! I KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING!!
LoL btw ramen you should upload vids about cursed Comments, you seem to know about them XD
Back in the 80’s, there was a Chucky Cheese here in Connecticut. It had an entrance for adults, and also an entrance for kids, meaning a set of regular doors, and a set of small doors. There was also a Burger King Castle that had animatronic band of Monkeys that would constantly play the “Birthday” song by the Beatles. I know this, because not only did I have a birthdate celebration there myself, I have a big family, so I went to many birthday parties . And yes, the staff constantly kicked me off stage for messing with the animatronic monkeys. I always wondered what happened to the band. 🤔
There were never animatronic monkeys at CEC, you're probably remembering The Beagles, a group of animatronic dogs parodying The Beatles.
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@@phantomhourglass13 "You come at the king, you best not miss." ~ Omar
@@the_gold_canopy what
@@phantomhourglass13 Maybe you should try reading my original comment, very slowly. Take your time. If you get stuck on a word just raise your hand. I got you bro.
My very first job in 1984 as a high school student was maintaining the arcade games (basically unplugging and plugging them back in again). I started a small riot at school by pouring a pitcher of tokens onto my lunch table. Good times.
Chuck E. Cheese: We have sadly filed for bankruptcy.
FNAF: It's time to get *funky.*
to the left
take it back now y’all
-Sunny Dayzzz- 3 hops this time
Right foot let’s stomp
Criss Cross
Cha Cha real smooth
“sketchy locations”...this explains why one of the local chuck e. cheese’s growing up was right next door to a strip club.
Khaffit Where an adult can be an adult i guess?
@Khaffit 🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏👏
@@lowqualityvideos8091 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bruhhhhhhh I'm dead
Lmao I thought I was the only one who grew up w/ a ghetto Chuck E Cheese
Business dropped when they stopped serving beer
i honestly hope they’re able to stay alive until i have my kids which would be in a good 20 years 😂 but growing up chuck e. cheese was one of my childhood highlights. nothing compared to getting out of school and begging my mom to take me there and playing in the tubes or playing the bowling game with the small blue balls.
They will be long gone. By the time you have kids they will be playing in the Meta verse or something new
Hill.j
Even if they were to exist, they wouldn't have the ball pits, sky tubes, or the animatronics
@@jasburger yeah. rest in peace to the animatronics
@@spungboy My nearest location that had the full band just got rid of them too
CEC was always my birthday spot growing up. When I drove past the one I always went to, I saw the sign gone and the windows boarded up. I pulled into it's parking lot and just ran through my memories of my childhood.
I'm sad that it's gone so downhill, but hopefully in some small way they are still making kids smile and laugh
*5 kids go missing*
Fnaf fans: so that’s where purple man went
And strange movements and smells reported from the robots after hours
this is all fake it’s a hoax. this false info was made form desperate fnaf fans just wanting to stir things up
BriezyX
Kys
Fnaf fans: oh yeah, its all coming together
ThE mAn BeHiNd ThE sLaUgHtEr
Short answer: They couldn’t out pizza the hut
xD
xD
Lol yes
💀💀
You do not want to know what happens to you when you out pizza the hut
There is also TONS of competition in the space, especially from higher-end places like Dave and Busters that appeal more to parents willing to spend.
I really loved Chuck E. Cheese's in the 80s when I was a kid. The problem was it was far away and thus only went there for my birthday. By the time one opened closer, I was outside of the target age range (although I still would have liked to go lol). I also think that the improvement of gaming consoles helped to hurt the company as the arcade games were just not as fancy anymore. Also, the animatronics would come to life at night at stalk you!
Chuck E. Cheese: Where a kid can be a kid
Freddy Fazbear's Pizza: Where a kid can be dead
Lmao amen freddy
So is it true that the animatronics are evil child killers?
@@blacknbougie8021 they r the children whom died and get revenge
Lmao yes don't forget the body count across 3 or more killers 55 AND COUNTINGS KIDS YAY
I remember those animatronis terrified the shit out of me when i went there for my 6 or 7th birthday especially the female blonde one
5 kids go missing at ChuckECheese
FNAF : Let us introduce ourselves..
hmmmmmm yes, the floor here is made of floor.
YESSS
Nugget pls give me nugget of friendship
Can you give link to me please
@NuggetOG
hmm, yes 1 hour in London is 1 hour Japan
I used to go to chuck E. Cheese's, for my birthday. I remember loving playing games like throwing the balls in the holes. Then I remember shaking chuck E. Cheese hand. I miss those days, but now I'm 29 years old. I think if you want to see what's like in your dreams, just go for it.
I think I only went once or twice about 15 years ago and apparently being scared of the guy wearing the Chuck E Cheese outfit. Thinking back about it I feel really bad even though I was just a little baby or toddler at the most lmao
I do wonder where he is now…
I only got to go there when richer friends had birthdays, but it was pretty neat.
Bruh, memories
Great job as always. I have always found this place interesting! Thanks for posting!
*5 kids go missing and bad smells are reported*
FNAF Fans: *oh my god it’s happening, everybody stay calm*
I don’t like FNAF. My parents gave my sister and I birthday parties at Chuck E. Cheese in the 80’s and then FNAF came along and ruined it for my kids.
Doodle Noodle That’s so true, but there is an article that says it’s fake. It’s sad that others don’t research to see if it’s true or not anymore.
@@genaeyoung180 ok boomer.
Hahaha yessss
Genae Young hush
I worked here for almost a decade. I'll tell you what went wrong. They changed the pizza recipe to make it easier and cost less in labor. For years we would make the dough from scratch ball it up, then rise it and roll it out and rise it again. The pizza was fantastic.
No one is going to pay 10$ for a crappy tasting pizza.
They then cut out the ball pit.
They then cut out the tubes.
So all day hang outs at chuck e cheeses went out the window. I would spend more money over a day than just an hour visit easily.
They got rid of token and did the cards. Tokens was one of the most fun part. Hearing it clank like a casino jackpot was addicting.
They cut every corner from 2006 to now to maximize profits and it went into the toilet with every penny they saved.
Joshua Good bruh I remember each of these things happening one by one, I lost it when the tubes were gone but those things were nasty anyways
Actually that makes a lot of sense. The very last slice I had of pizza there tasted like garbage. One of the reasons I loved going there as a kid was the pizza was good!
You got rid of REAL arcade games and went with garbage ticket redemption crap. That's where you lost me...
I don't know about that as far as pizza quality. Kids tend to like crappy pizza alright and parents are going there for the kids. Hell, bowling alleys I've been to don't have very good food at a high price and I see plenty people getting it.
I think it has more to do with kids having access to high quality games at home. Arcades in general have been hurt from that.
So basically, chuck e cheese went down hill
I worked at one 5 years ago and it was crazy. They also sell beer in their stores too
The brawls between parents at Chuck E Cheese is the biggest factor to their bankruptcy
I’ve only stepped foot into Chuck E. Cheese once when I was around 10. Growing up poor and watching their commercials during Saturday morning cartoons, I used to think only rich kids go there.
Actually no poor people took their kids there instead of Dave and Busters
MCDisney poor area?
Zack Michael ....yeah
Where I grew up, Chuck E Cheese used to redeem good grades on school report cards for free tokens. So we'd go there for free every semester. We never bought pizza or anything there cause we were poor though.
Only the parents are rich and they only walk-in like that
Everyone talking about fnaf but I’m just shitting my pants about how terrifying showbiz’s Billy Bob animatronic is
@IDOL HELL He is NOT better than the rat.
Back when I was young I was afraid of Barney the dinosaur. But now I am loaded with a kylo ren lightsaber and ready to fight for my life
I've always been really afraid of the animatronics which is why fnaf comes to mind plus it's one of my favorite games lol
「MR. M O ONMΛN」 there is a horror thing that looks like showbiz animatronic eats child it’s from Hulu
@IDOL HELL billy bob looks like he wants to consume my soul
Newsflash; if your restaurant is seen as an obnoxious children’s restaurant, and you then try to appeal to adults, you’re only gonna divide your customers. Children won’t want to go because it’s boringly corporate and parents won’t want to go because it’s not designed for them.
I did not know Peter Piper Pizza wasn't more well known. That place was my childhood! More geared towards an older crowd (12+) loved it.
It's lame without tokens. The sound made such a big difference in the way that place felt. I am also biased because my dad worked for the factory where the tokens used to be made
@@screwedupmystic2597 hahah I remember doing that
Im ur 100th like
Mystic BWAHHAHAHHA I remember doing thatttt!
Bro I remember lifting a chair that was “stuck” to the floor and finding a ton of coins
I remember wasting all my tokens on this ride you could go on with Chuck E. Cheese 😂 i have so many pictures
I would not be surprised if someone bought a Chuck E. Cheese’s and turned it into a fnaf place
Somebody needs to I’ll go
Someone tell Scott Cawthon to save up his money & do this!😁
Cringe 😬
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With the amount of merchandising FNAF has had over the past 5 years its astonishing they haven't. By the time they do however it would probably be to late
The big question is why would they get rid of the tokens? That was like the defining factor that gave Chuck E Cheese’s its identity
When Chuck E Cheese's worst year is 2014, the year FNAF is released:
*Oh yeah, it's all coming together*
I hope Chuck E Cheese builds a location at my palace. I'd love to climb in their SkyTubes (cough Diet McD's PlayPlace) with my best buds Dennis Rodman, Trump, and Putin. Putin has been dealing with so much lately so I feel giving him a break by inviting him there would be a nice breather.
FNAF: *A video game*
Chuck E cheese animatronic: *Malfunctions*
Everyone who knows the storyline of FNAF: You know the rules., so do I
Shut Duck I love your name and profile picture
@@kell2883 same
**Grabs purple guy suit and a knife** UwU
*Takes a Purple Guy suit and knife, and hires a partners and takes the Check E cheese Robots while targetting my co workers wife* UwU
WTF THE RYPLYS UHHH
The Five Nights at Freddy's timeline will begin shortly.
First things first, we need a bunny suit and five children.
Don't forget the lost mascots to the Original Chuckster here
I volunteer being one of the 5 children qwq
@@GlitchyOnAChair meh too
I would like to be one of the children
P0tat0Pleb UwU same here
very good channel my man :)
Is it weird that I was terrified of Chuck E. Cheese’s when I was younger? All the time when the guy in the suit would come out I would hide in the play set thingy and stayed there crying until he was gone. Those were some of the darkest memories I’ve ever had as a 3-7 year old.
s a m e
Dried Rice I wasn’t scared until i learn about fnaf in like 2015 lol
The man behind the slaughter
I was scared of him but had no idea what to do he would just act werid and run to me and hug me I was soo scared he looks creepy, and once he was standing somewhere and he kept staring at me ngl
Omg same!! I was also afraid of the Ronald McDonald clown for the McDonald's restaurant lol
I had a friend who worked at Chuck-E-Cheese’s. She said there were parents who would drop off their kids, give them a handful of tokens, or later on the electronic cards, and then just leave them there for the day as cheap daycare, or worse use it as a place to abandon them. Those kids were taken in by the police who would contact CPS to report child abandonment.
Jesus that's crazy
Ahahaha yea
@@mambamentalityripkobe9083 Some parents? All parents? What exactly are you talking about?
Damn, seriously? I heard things got hectic at CEC, but nothing like that.
Too bad you couldn’t make them clean.
Man I Miss Chuck E Cheese, Love these videos. Keep it up. They’re entertaining
and.. Just.. awesome in General! 🤘🏼🔥
The one I went to for my birthday, the cheep horrible frozen "pizza" was twice the price of pizza huts and the games was 2 to 20 dollars to play. I remember crying and telling my mother, let's never go here again, we could have went to Pizza hut! Witch was twice the price of any other pizza place in town.we all talked about that experience for many years later.
They claimed they "out pizza'd the hut"
Plain n simple that nobody out pizzas the hut
LOL
Exactly
And then PIZZA... Sent out for THEM. _That's_ why they're in financial difficulties now.
😂😂
Any local ny pizza shop out does the hut!!! Pizza hut sucks! Loved it as a kid when it had a jukebox and arcade games. Now its junk!!!
Ah, the nostalgia of overpriced crappy pizza, out of order games, the matted fur of dead-eyed animatronics, and rickety indoor playground tunnels that perpetually smelled of urine. Fun times
Name Name lol
Ah the good ol days 😌
I feel bad for ur town's Chuckecheese, mines was great, had great pizza, games and entertainment, I loved going as a kid
and the smell of sweaty feet
@@nhnova1452 I think the one I went to as a kid was great at one point, but by the time I went, its glory days were long gone.
My wife and I used to really enjoy taking my sons, my nieces, and my nephews to Chuck E. Cheese. They could run around, enjoy themselves, play some games, and have some pizza. My wife and I enjoyed doing the same. My extended family’s kids could hang out with us for a while and they be out of their parent’s hair. My sons enjoyed the company of all their cousins. All the kids are grown up now. I kinda miss those times.
Covid and social distancing killed CEC off during a time when their financial situation was already fragile. They were too deep in debt and they couldn’t make any money. What were they thinking and why were they in such a rush to expand so fast? They weren’t making enough money to support opening all those stores.
What a shame, I went to Chuck E. Cheese all the time when I was a kid. For an only child it was a fun way to get out of the house and socialize. The tubes and hideaway spots also stimulated my imagination quite a bit. Overall I’m sad to see it’s doing so poorly, I like to think there were ways the company could’ve been improved/ saved but I can also see the logic behind thinking that it’s a dying business model. Sad
RIP to the legendary child casino
Facts
Agreed with yung, this is straight facts.
It been died though
XD
Facts bro
Lets be honest
The tube jungle gym is where the pandemic started
If you played in that pit, your probably not getting covid lol
Maybe not EVERY tube... The ball bit and the "car" with the steering wheel however yes.
Lma() this killed me.
Lmao
Some kid peed there before while working and one of us had to clean it .
When I was younger, I absolutely loved going there. Although my memories there are hazy, I know I absolutely loved it. I do still have some pictures from my mother. My mother took me there when I was younger with my best friend, later my cousins showed up. I had the blast of a lifetime.
It was a lot of fun for my kids but IMO what killed Chuck E Cheese were the negligent parents who treated it like a daycare center, left their kids there, and came back later in the day to pick them up. It got out of control with unsupervised kids.
The Comments Section Of This Video.
80% FNAF
10% The CEC Mascot Are Scary As Freak
Other 10% is the man behind the sluaghter
He was killed before he was able to finish this comment
I don’t see that many FNAF comments.
Other 10% please
9% other comments
1% this comment
So fun fact: I used to work as a security guard for a shopping area that contained a Chuck E. Cheese. I didn't work in the place itself but my job was to walk around and report anything suspicious. There were like 15 stores on that little block. Guess which place found a corpse in their bathroom right after closing.
Katie Marie YOU W H A T
_W H A T_
Katie Marie WHAT happened
Okay it seems people want the story here. So again, I was the security guard for the whole plaza, not Chuck E. Cheese itself, so I wasn't in the store when it happened, but I was doing my usual rounds, all was well, I went to the back to write down that all was well the previous hour, and I went back out. Suddenly there are police cars everywhere and an ambulance. Naturally, I'm confused. I was just out there and everything seemed fine. So I went to talk to the employees outside.
What had happened was, after closing, one of the male employees went into the boys' room to clean it. Usual closing time stuff. Except he found a man's body and a second man who was so high he was unresponsive. From what they could tell, they both went into the bathroom, injected themselves with something, and one of them died from the overdose. Neither man had any children in the restaurant, thank goodness. What possessed these two men to go into a Chuck E. Cheese bathroom and shoot themselves up with drugs (I think it was heroin but I don't remember if I found that out or if it was a theory someone had) remains a mystery, but I was there 2 hours past the end of my shift getting all the information I could about what happened so I could fill out a report on it. Far as I know, the second man survived. I saw them taking the body out under a white cloth and everything. No one there knew either person in the bathroom. The employees were pretty shaken up but I checked in later and they were okay. I was surprised at how okay they were, actually. I guess this isn't the worst thing they've seen.
This was summer 2016 in the Gaithersburg Square shopping center in Maryland. I just looked it up and I can't find any news coverage on it, but I very vividly remember this so I know I didn't make it up. I remember finding it morbidly funny that out of every place on that plaza, it was Chuck E. Cheese that gave me the craziest incident I'd ever witnessed on that job. I don't work there anymore though.
Never mind, it closed in June. That sucks, that was the one I used to go to as a kid!
I remember both from back in the 80s. Liked the look and feel of Chuck E Cheese more, as the Show Biz tended to be smaller with cheaper games and a much goofier animatron show, but when it came to the Pizza, Show Biz was way better. One of my favorite specialty pizzas I ever had was at a Show Biz. Think it might have been called the Aloha Pizza, which was a variant of their Hawaiian Pizza. Had Pineapple, Canadian Bacon, Shrimp and almond shavings. Only place I ever seen almonds offered on Pizza and I been to some pretty unusual pizza places in my life. A couple that come to mind are Frank's Pizzaria that was located in Crystal Springs, California. That's the Crystal Springs Village in San Mateo county and not the one near Sacramento. Frank's would put anything on a pizza you wanted if they could find it at the safeway across the street. The other really wild pizza place I don't remember the name of but it was in Tacoma, Washington and specialized in seafood pizzas and is the only place I've ever had a pizza with crab on it.
Fascinating!! Thank you!!
short answer: people don't wanna eat pizza around loud snotty kids
True
They're selling pizza under a different name.
yeah, most people didn't want to go there because of what happens in the play area..
disgusting
People did just that for decades, apparently. What changed?
@@TheNobleFive PE firms
First Blockbuster than ToysRus and now Chuck E. Cheese's. My childhood is slowly dying
Slowly? More like at lightspeed
i miss blockbuster
But we finally got the Transformer movie we wanted. Now if somebody could finally get working on Voltron.
yep
I know it’s sad
Here's some other reasons why Chuck E Cheese ended up in the sinker:
1) Many of the stores had a persistent problem with cleaninliness
2) A certain segment of our population creates lots of problems
3) Same folks liked to have brawls there, apparently (beware the Kwanishas)
Anyone born in the early 80s has STRONG memories of Chuck E. Cheese's.
Are we not going to talk about how scary that “showbiz” Mascot was?
Stop doing that WE'RE TRYING TO REPRESS IT
it was horrifying
@@user-qx3dn1vm8z it was
fr it looks like the one on that gravity falls episode lol
animatronics scare meeeeee
Am I the only one who thinks that adding play pass cards was kind of a bad idea because I think most people enjoy being able to see how many coins they have left and how many tickets they get
I agree! Tickets and coins made it fun.
They still have tickets but the coins were better because people would drop coins everywhere and you can steal them
i hate the play pass cards last time i went everytime i tried to play a game i had to scan the card and it just didint work well at all
i was hard just tryna play a game
As a da who brought his kids there, I felt like a god passing out coins to the kids.
@@youngchap4941 thats also the fun part. in old days we needed beat nintendo and blow on the game. and with ps1 we had to spin, un plug, spin etc. it was an adventure to get game setup, thats what made it so super fun :D
The light for “H” in the word Chuck at my local location went out. They recently got a full frontal makeover, I will miss you Cuck E Cheese
The ticket blaster was so much harder than it looked, 3rd grade me was devastated when I emerged with barely a small handful.
The Chuck E. Cheese by me during covid had cardboard signs saying “please buy our pizza 5$” I don’t imagine them doing well
Same here
That's just sad. I picture Chuck E cheese the mouse standing outside the restaurant in raggedy clothes holding up said sign.
You aint have to put them out like that😂😂😭😭😭
Chuck E. Cheese : who-who are you?!
Dave & busters : I’m you, but better.
Congratulations, you’ve (soon to be) won the internet
Or like somewhere in like 2039
Chucky cheese: who are you
Freddy Fazbear's pizza: I'm all the pizza places but BETTER
Ennard where did your failure lead you...back to me
amateurs
WHAT WAS THAT PUNK
playdium: amaetures
@@darkdavis6251 ew
I loved this place. Me and my brother would go there with our cousins when we were little and it was the best in 2015. The pizza was the bomb too, it's sad what they have become.
Nice info
People finally realized that rodents and pizza shouldn't go together
Guess Master Splinter never got the memo when feeding the TMNT.
I guess that's why my Pizza chain "Cockroach Pizza" failed...
To be fair, if they rebranded as Fazbear's Pizzeria... They would at least be able to live up to the horror of their animatronics.
no screw you mice and cheese belong together!!
pizza rat, duh
The story about the coyote costume being replaced with the rat costume was hilarious.... bravo company man.
Appreciate it. It was too good to leave out.
@@companyman114 It was an excellent addition to the story, I kind of know the history of this company but this part was never told, its these kinds of things that make stories interesting.
@@companyman114 so you left out dz the discovery zone which was aquired by chuck e cheese
@@companyman114 you should do a video about BlackBerry dying unless you did that already
@@sparrow8095 I see other videos on the rise and fall of BlackBerrys but I don't see any videos from company man
What a cool video. I had no idea about Atari. As a kid in the 80's I found the animatronics scary ( so did the person who created 5 nights at Freddys) The building of the one near me is still there, and vacant decades later, its kind of sad.
Great video
Chuck E Cheese:closed due to kids missing and awful smells
FNAF fans: T H E M A N B E H I N D T H E S L A U G H T E R
Scott Cawthon: I DIDNT THINK THIS WOULD HAPPEN
Yea man
Dude, someone did a cover of it
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^__^
That is fake
@@bababa25257 yup